Bas joined Dec 5, 2007

I am a versatile software developer, so my main focus is software design and implementation ('programming'). I do however also have hobby-experience doing some Blender 3D modeling and level design for various games!

This game looks like it could be a whole lot of fun. After a few disappointments I promised myself not to do any "early access" purchases anymore, so I will be waiting for the gold/release version. Any chance you are going to release a demo? :)

A little over 10 years now. It's pretty sad that I haven't created anything worth mentioning in those 10 years, but at least I had a lot of fun creating those 'personal' mods. And having modding/game development experience got me an internship at a (small) game company!

"I'm curious if anyone from here built one of the ships?"
I'm credited as 'Soulrot', so yes. I built the tiny all-green ship (completely in front in the screenshot on you uploaded). I really wanted to create some larger, cooler ships, but time and circumstances didn't allow it unfortunately.

Anyway, I hope this game gets the the attention it deserves when you are doing Kickstarter. There is so much competition, and doing a Kickstarter campaign (right) can be an actual full-time job, or so I have heard :/

Ahw look at that cute, first-attempt-at-ship-building, green little ship! ;)
I was wondering, what is the 'deadline' for the trailer? I have some cool designs in mind, but I don't have a lot of time to do anything non-study related at the moment :/

During my internship I sat next to a professional concept artist and his 'just doodling around' had very similar results. And he kept amazing me for during the months of my internship, just like you always do, because I still have a lot of trouble imagining how people can create such pieces by just seemingly randomly putting down some strokes!

Wait, I just realized you are using Unity for this project, even though you have developed your own engine for Natural Selection 2. Is that because Spark does not handle 'terrain' and open areas well? Obviously it can do some quite amazing stuff.

Anyway, I like that the artist keeps in mind the need to re-use assets. Makes it a lot easier to 'stay true to the concept art'.

I can only have massive respect for quitting your job to focus on your game! After 20 weeks of a full-time game development internship I have decided that I am not going to work on games full-time again. I do like it a lot, but it feel like it is a way too big risk.

And of course taking breaks is an important part and as a lot of studies apparently have shown, taking a break actually increases productivity :P

Thanks, it took me a lot of time, effort and perseverance (but hey, I paid for the license...) before I finally understood what I was doing with Torque. I did in the end switch to Unity (and more recently UDK) because it's much more user-friendly and it allows productivity to be WAY higher!